Dictionary Definition
depth
Noun
1 extent downward or backward or inward; "the
depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet"
2 degree of psychological or intellectual
depth
3 (usually plural) the deepest and most remote
part; "from the depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from
the depths of space"
4 (usually plural) a low moral state; "he had
sunk to the depths of addiction"
5 the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply
into ideas [syn: astuteness, profundity, profoundness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- The vertical
distance below a
surface; the amount that
something is deep.
- Measure the depth of the water in this part of the bay.
- The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet.
- In the context of "figurative": The intensity, complexity,
strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, or
situation.
- The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.
- The depth of the crisis had been exaggerated.
- The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.
- In the context of "computing|colors": The total palette of available colors.
- In the context of "art|photography": The property of appearing
three-dimensional.
- The depth of field in this picture is amazing.
Related terms
Translations
vertical distance below a surface
- Czech: hloubka
- Dutch: diepte
- Finnish syvyys
- French: profondeur
- German: Tiefe
- Greek: βάθος (vathos)
- Hebrew: עומק /ʿomeq/
- Indonesian: kedalaman
- Italian: profondità
- Lithuanian: gylis , gilumas
- Japanese: 深さ (ふかさ, fukasa)
- Occitan: prigondor
- Spanish: profundidad
- Portuguese: profundidade
Extensive Definition
The term Depth may refer to:
- Depth perception, 3d shapes
- Depth of moral character
- Depth in a well
- Color depth or number of bits used determining the range of colors supported by computer graphics
- Depth-first search, a search algorithm
- Depth-limited search, a search algorithm
- Depth gauge
depth in German: tiefe
depth in French: Profondeur
depth in Portuguese: Profundidade
depth in Finnish: Syvyys
depth in Russian: Глубина
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
French pitch, Sophia, abstruseness, abysm, abyss, acumen, amplitude, area, astuteness, bigness, bodily size, body, bottomless pit, brain, breadth, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, broad-mindedness,
bulk, caliber, cavity, chasm, classical pitch, coarseness, complexity, comprehensively,
corpulence, coverage, crater, crevasse, deep, deeply, deepness, deeps, depths, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance through,
draft, drop, erudition, expanse, expansion, extension, extensively, extent, fatness, gauge, girth, good understanding,
greatness, grossness, gulf, height, high pitch, hole, hollow, in detail, innerness, inness, insight, intellect, intelligence, intensity, intensively, interiority, internality, internalization,
intricacy, intrinsicality, introversion, intuition, inwardness, keenness, key, largeness, length, low pitch, lowness, magnitude, mass, measure, measurement, mellow wisdom,
nadir, new philharmonic
pitch, note, obscurity, penetration, perception, perspicaciousness,
perspicacity,
philharmonic pitch, philosophical pitch, pit, pitch, profoundly, profoundness, profundity, proportion, proportions, radius, range, reach, reconditeness, register, richness, ripe wisdom, sagacity, sageness, sapience, scale, scope, seasoned understanding,
sense, shaft, sharpness, size, sound understanding, sounding, spread, standard pitch, strength, the third dimension,
thickness, thoroughly, tonality, tone, tune, understanding, vividness, volume, well, width, wisdom, wiseness, yawning
abyss